DH Talk
Project: American Generalizations
Laura Aull’s American Generalizations: The Development and Dangers of the Essay, 1910-2010 aims to offer a corpus-driven look at the relationship between 20th century American generalist essays and the use of overly generalized/universalized claims in U.S. public and student writing today. To do so, the project will (1) explore how the 20th century general readership magazine essay developed and helped construct a set of shared U.S. beliefs and ideas, (2) analyze patterns in generalized/ universalized markers in published essays in Google books, COHA, and COCA, and in college student writing, and (3) consider related implications for the continued popularity of the generalist essay as a tool for American learning and public debate.
Our goal
The DH Community is a program of Wake Forest's Humanities Institute. We are faculty from across campus interested in investigating the emergence of digital humanities as a field of study, and its relevance and usefulness as a research and teaching tool in the humanities.Join the conversation!
Use your Wake Forest username and password to login and contribute to DH Talk.
Tag Cloud
Ada Lovelace advocacy alan liu Alan Turing Artificial Intelligence big data careers close reading crowdsourcing culturomics database design digital collections digital curation digital pedagogy digital projects digital scholarship digitization distant reading funding history humanities data curation internet italy language liberal arts mapping methods multimedia multimodal omega peer review quantitative analysis resource resources sentiment analysis southern history statistics symposium teaching textual analysis THATCamp transcription undergraduate education venice word frequency
